Ver. 2. The second verse contains the formal indictment against the wicked:
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor. The accusation divides itself into two distinct charges, - pride and tyranny; the one the root and cause of the other. The second sentence is the humble petition of the oppressed:
Let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. The prayer is reasonable, just, and natural. Even our enemies themselves being judges, it is but right that men should be done by as they wished to do to others. We only weigh you in your own scales, and measure your corn with your own bushel. Terrible shall be thy day, O persecuting Babylon! when thou shalt be made to drink of the wine cup which thou thyself hast filled to the brim with the blood of saints. There are none who will dispute the justice of God, when he shall hang every Haman on his own gallows, and cast all the enemies of his Daniels into their own den of lions.
Ver. 2. The second verse contains the formal indictment against the wicked:
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor. The accusation divides itself into two distinct charges, - pride and tyranny; the one the root and cause of the other. The second sentence is the humble petition of the oppressed:
Let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. The prayer is reasonable, just, and natural. Even our enemies themselves being judges, it is but right that men should be done by as they wished to do to others. We only weigh you in your own scales, and measure your corn with your own bushel. Terrible shall be thy day, O persecuting Babylon! when thou shalt be made to drink of the wine cup which thou thyself hast filled to the brim with the blood of saints. There are none who will dispute the justice of God, when he shall hang every Haman on his own gallows, and cast all the enemies of his Daniels into their own den of lions.